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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 430 · 40 questions
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Engineer's tip (Ask, imagine, plan, create, test, improve): Ask (problem, users, limits) → Imagine (many ideas) → Plan (diagram, materials). Create (build a prototype) → Test (measure) → Improve (fix and retest). It is a loop: after Improve, test again.

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  1. 1.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  4. 4.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  7. 7.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  10. 10.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) find the limits (d) build the model
  14. 14.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) measure its performance (c) list the materials (d) redesign after testing
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) define the problem (c) list the materials (d) make a prototype
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) ask who will use it (c) make it better, retest (d) pick the build order
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) define the problem (c) build the model (d) fix the weak part
  22. 22.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  24. 24.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) dream up possible fixes (d) measure its performance
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  28. 28.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) find the limits (d) check it against goals
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make it better, retest
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) fix the weak part (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) think of wild ideas
  32. 32.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  36. 36.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  40. 40.True or false: to define the problem is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Imagine
  3. Ask
  4. Ask
  5. no, it repeats
  6. Improve
  7. True
  8. Test
  9. Test
  10. False
  11. Ask
  12. Plan
  13. build the model
  14. False
  15. list the materials
  16. define the problem
  17. Improve
  18. pick the build order
  19. Create
  20. Imagine
  21. fix the weak part
  22. Plan
  23. Imagine
  24. True
  25. dream up possible fixes
  26. Ask
  27. Plan
  28. False
  29. find the limits
  30. make it better, retest
  31. think of wild ideas
  32. True
  33. Imagine
  34. Ask
  35. Imagine
  36. True
  37. Plan
  38. Create
  39. Plan
  40. False

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